Taking a break from smexy mice ladies. About a year ago I posted the first http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3732568/ of a series of concept designs for the pre-production stage of an animated television series worked on in the late 90's. Well recently I found a few more copies of the sketches I had made.

This was a proposed design for what is really not a bomber but instead was stand-off platform system. This was a universe where energy shields exist but were not the almost invincible things of some sci-fi creations. Hit them hard enough and the hard crunchy shell fails exposing the soft chewy center.

If I remember correctly, in this proposed series there were only a few ways to break shields and damage ships and their crews. One was directed energy weapons but against larger vessels it took some mighty powerful weapons to breach the shields. Kinetic energy from crashing something hard, dense and going really fast, but once again larger vessels shields could resist these, and nukes. Lots of nukes.

When space combat did not involve direct combat between large capital ships, something both sides tried to avoid, attacks were carried out by large numbers smaller manned ships launched from the larger vessels. It is cliche but it the feel was that of the Carrier Wars in the Pacific during WWII. Swarms of fighters escorting bombers and attack craft in to attack the enemies main ships while the opposition attempts to thwart assaults with their own fighter screens and point defenses. At the same time send out their own strike packages to attack your main ships

The Vulcan's main job was to race ahead of the strike package and fire their large missiles at the enemy fleet. Then break off and tear back to the protection of the fighter screens. The missiles carried either large thermonuclear warheads to disrupt capital ships shields and destroy smaller ships. Swarms of guided submunitions to sow havoc amongst enemy fighter defense. Or launch decoys and jamming ordnance to confuse the enemies sensors.

Is this how I imagine space combat really happening? No. But if one suspends their disbelief for a moment it does allow for some fine space opera.